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Show COPY OF THE GOSPEL. The "Book of Kells" is the most beautiful and elaborate of any existing exist-ing copy of the Gospels. . The technical tech-nical skill and exquisite color sense displayed in the intricate ornamentation ornamenta-tion of its pages must astonish and delight everyone who has had the good fortune to see it. Executed about the ninth century, it was stolen from the monastery at Kells in 1106, and was found some days later in a bog, without its golden cover, which has never been replaced; some pages were lost, which doubtless contained a record of the time and circumstances under which it was produced. |